Former St Peter’s RFC players Callum Sheedy and Ioan Lloyd have got behind their old club and lent their support to kickstart the club’s fundraising drive to raise money for a new roof.   Wales superstars Sheedy and Lloyd are being joined by Josh Navidi and BBC sports broadcaster Jason Mohammad, who is compering the event, for an online evening of fun and rugby banter as the Club – known as the Rocks – launches its crowdfunder to raise…

My fellow self-isolators, on a recent weekend away in Devon, we saw this fish sculpture on the beach.  A nice use of builders’ rubble wouldn’t you say.  Funnily enough, I’ve been training as a sculptor since lockdown but I’m not particularly good at it.  Just the other day I made an Elk from limestone which I thought was good, but my art teacher Mr Watson couldn’t work out what it was.  I said to him:  “Surely you can see that…

The other weekend was rather strange.  We found a large toad in our garage.  How it got in there is a complete mystery.  However, we released him back into the wild in a local reen.  Next up we saw a bloke catch a two-foot long pike in the same reen.  Then we saw this swan on a Lilo in the reen.  Finally saw a life-size imitation crocodile on a canal bank in Rogerstone.  I have got to stop drinking!  …

I was having a look around our garage the other day and came across our suitcases under a dust-sheet.  I felt it was only fair to break the news to them that there would be no holiday this year.  I wish I hadn’t because now I have to deal with emotional baggage. They say that everyone’s got a book in them.  Painful, I would have thought.   According to the Daily Mail, Cadbury has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds…

Let me introduce you to Ciren. The current Mrs Nolan and I were walking through Cirencester in the days when we were allowed out and attended their Christmas Fair which was a splendid event. We could not resist buying this handmade steel dragon which is of some scale, (no pun intended), and we christened her Ciren after her place of birth. She sits in our conservatory snarling at the birds in the garden. In the recently enforced UK-wide house clean,…

Here’s a top tip.  She Who Won’t Leave Home and I were recently given a very large bottle of rose wine which could only fit in the fridge if we removed the veg from the veg drawer.  The veg had to go.  Of course, once uncorked, it could not go back in since it had to lay down, thus giving us 1.5 litres to drink in one session.  Not impossible of course but certainly a challenge.  Then came the moment…

The Thoroughbred Dog and Pass the Parcel      Dear Electorate, it may have escaped your notice but the General Election is upon us in a matter of weeks.  Now politics is a thorny area and most of us have differing views but be that as it may, I have been amused at the hollow promises politicians dust off and run-up-the-flagpole at this special time.  In the good old days politicians had careers away from politics, (or was it carers)…